Title
4.3 B Faculty Senate Minutes, September 17, 2010
Subject(s)
Faculty
Governance
Description
Highlights:
-attached President's Report includes important information about Faculty Responsibilities During Campus Emergencies
-Faculty should consider completing crisis training and should become familiar with the CNU Alert Site
-Faculty members have requested that the administration send campus-wide alerts through the classroom phones in addition to cell phones.
-The
administration might consider using a strong word such as "lockdown" in the text/phone messages for Level 2 alerts in order to convey the severity of the situation.
-Perhaps the University should consider recommending against having banks near campus
-The Jordan Construction employees who were working on campus at the time of the event were alerted to the armed robbery
-Some faculty do not use Scholar as a teaching tool, and so they became apprehensive when the
Provost asked all faculty to post one week's worth of assignments on Scholar so that we would be
able to keep classes running virtually if the University had to close due to the hurricane
-Students and faculty who lose power during a hurricane and its aftermath will not be able to keep up with assignments that are managed through Scholar
-Science labs do not lend themselves to online management. How would missed labs be made up?
-In the event of campuswide
evacuation it is possible that some students may not have a place
to go or that some may not be able to get home (e.g., because going home means traveling into
the path of hurricane). The University might consider creating a shelter or devising other means of ensuring safe housing for stranded students.
-Digital Measures for EVAL-6 concerns
-Digital Measures questionnaire
-Content of Dossiers
-Assessment Criteria for Annual Reviews
-Virtual Teaching Center
-Faculty Awards
-freshmen, Core Advisors and faculty teaching freshmen will be asked to assess Student Success initiatives via questionnaires this fall
-plan for the faculty recognition site from University Architect Hunter Bristow
-proposed creating a social and commercial networking site for CNU faculty/staff on the portal
-The University
will reestablish the Office of International Initiatives, position it administratively
within the academic side of the University, and house it physically in the offices currently occupied by Student Counseling Services.
-A & H Chairs meetings discussed: searches in various departments; DOSSIER grants; Digital Measures and issues with it; advising now falls under teaching, yet the UE4 counts core advising as service; class size adjustments were discussed; development of a Renaissance Studies minor; developing "one sheets" by departments for parents and prospective students
-main points from discussion of class size given
-SS chairs: EvalAR schedules and extensions, weights for restricted faculty, and a general discussion of faculty hiring "pedigree"
-Faculty Senate Goals: Final Vote
-BAC Memo: Final Vote
-Revised Freshmen Continuance Policy
-Senate would like information regarding freshmen continuance issues last year
-Scholars Associates Program proposal and discussion
-review the Handbook section on University
Committees in order to clarify the language on voting procedures and membership
-Faculty Pay for Summer Courses
-Charles Schroeder, Senior Associate for NoelLevitz,
will be on campus on October 5-6 to review the Core Advising Program
-attached President's Report includes important information about Faculty Responsibilities During Campus Emergencies
-Faculty should consider completing crisis training and should become familiar with the CNU Alert Site
-Faculty members have requested that the administration send campus-wide alerts through the classroom phones in addition to cell phones.
-The
administration might consider using a strong word such as "lockdown" in the text/phone messages for Level 2 alerts in order to convey the severity of the situation.
-Perhaps the University should consider recommending against having banks near campus
-The Jordan Construction employees who were working on campus at the time of the event were alerted to the armed robbery
-Some faculty do not use Scholar as a teaching tool, and so they became apprehensive when the
Provost asked all faculty to post one week's worth of assignments on Scholar so that we would be
able to keep classes running virtually if the University had to close due to the hurricane
-Students and faculty who lose power during a hurricane and its aftermath will not be able to keep up with assignments that are managed through Scholar
-Science labs do not lend themselves to online management. How would missed labs be made up?
-In the event of campuswide
evacuation it is possible that some students may not have a place
to go or that some may not be able to get home (e.g., because going home means traveling into
the path of hurricane). The University might consider creating a shelter or devising other means of ensuring safe housing for stranded students.
-Digital Measures for EVAL-6 concerns
-Digital Measures questionnaire
-Content of Dossiers
-Assessment Criteria for Annual Reviews
-Virtual Teaching Center
-Faculty Awards
-freshmen, Core Advisors and faculty teaching freshmen will be asked to assess Student Success initiatives via questionnaires this fall
-plan for the faculty recognition site from University Architect Hunter Bristow
-proposed creating a social and commercial networking site for CNU faculty/staff on the portal
-The University
will reestablish the Office of International Initiatives, position it administratively
within the academic side of the University, and house it physically in the offices currently occupied by Student Counseling Services.
-A & H Chairs meetings discussed: searches in various departments; DOSSIER grants; Digital Measures and issues with it; advising now falls under teaching, yet the UE4 counts core advising as service; class size adjustments were discussed; development of a Renaissance Studies minor; developing "one sheets" by departments for parents and prospective students
-main points from discussion of class size given
-SS chairs: EvalAR schedules and extensions, weights for restricted faculty, and a general discussion of faculty hiring "pedigree"
-Faculty Senate Goals: Final Vote
-BAC Memo: Final Vote
-Revised Freshmen Continuance Policy
-Senate would like information regarding freshmen continuance issues last year
-Scholars Associates Program proposal and discussion
-review the Handbook section on University
Committees in order to clarify the language on voting procedures and membership
-Faculty Pay for Summer Courses
-Charles Schroeder, Senior Associate for NoelLevitz,
will be on campus on October 5-6 to review the Core Advising Program
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Date
September 17, 2010
Call Number
4.3 B
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